Nepali transcription services

Clean read suits corporate video, interviews for publication and anything heading for translation: filler words and false starts come out, meaning stays. Verbatim is what legal proceedings, compliance material and research interviews need, because every utterance, pause and honorific level is on the record. Either way the level of address each speaker used is preserved. Your project manager confirms the choice against your end use.

Nepali marks how formally one person addresses another inside the verb ending itself, not just in a word of politeness. An academic study of the system names three grades, low, middle and high, each with its own pronoun and its own verb form. Flattening them to one neutral form erases a real social fact the speaker communicated, which matters in a deposition, an interview or any record meant to reflect what was actually said.

The verb 'to eat' takes three different endings depending on who is being addressed: ta khāncha at the low level, timi khānchau at the middle level, tapāī̃ khānuhuncha at the high level. Same root, same meaning, three grammatically distinct forms. Choosing the right one means recognising the relationship between speaker and listener, not just transcribing the sound.

Not reliably. A speech tool can transcribe the words of a sentence without judging the social relationship behind them, and honorific level in Nepali is exactly that judgement, carried in the verb ending. A native Nepali transcriber hears who is speaking to whom and sets the level accordingly, and a second linguist checks it is consistent for each speaker across the file.

There is no flat rate, because no two files take the same work. Runtime, recording quality, how many people are talking, your deadline and whether you also need an English version all move the figure. So does how many speakers and honorific relationships the audio carries, since each one needs the verb forms checked. Every quote carries our Price Match Promise.

Upload is encrypted, the file goes to one named Nepali transcriber who has signed an NDA, and nothing is put through public speech-to-text services at any point. If you have your own confidentiality agreement we sign it, if you have retention rules we work to them, and if your policy says the audio goes once the transcript is approved, we delete it.

It is normal work. Phone audio, site noise, focus groups and meetings where three people speak at once all get transcribed. What difficult audio changes is time, and occasionally certainty about who is addressing whom. We listen to a sample first and tell you straight what we expect to be able to capture, rather than handing you a file peppered with inaudible tags.

In whatever the next step needs: plain text, Word, PDF, SRT, VTT or your own template, with timecodes, speaker labels and honorific levels set the way you want them. Devanagari is delivered in Unicode so it displays correctly wherever it lands. Tell us what happens to the transcript after we send it and we format it for that, not for us.